The New Deal Chapter 24.1. FDR’s Background What do you know about FDR?

The New DealChapter 24.1

FDR’s Background

What do you know about FDR?

20th Amendment• March inauguration• 20th Amendment –

changes inauguration• Why change?• Reduces lame duck

period• Get the Brain Trust

to work!

Frances Perkins

Mary McLeod Bethune

21st Amendment

• Prohibition OVER!• Ratified in 1933• Last to ratify =

Utah, Ohio…•… and

Pennsylvania?

Restore Hope

Fireside chats

First Fireside Chat

First Action

•Campaign promise = balance the budget•Economy Act

Two Theories• Keynsian

Economics• “Prime the Pump”• Borrow and spend

money…• To create jobs• Run up large

deficits• Pay debt later

• Supply Side Economics• Tax cuts and

breaks• Businesses

reinvest• Jobs created• Benefits “trickle

down”

The Hundred Days

• “FDR Push” = • New Programs:• Relief = people in

need• Recovery = for the

economy• Reform = never

happen again

Collaboration• Read Chapter

24.1 (p.624 – 631)• Research your

programs• Record your

findings (poster!)• Share with

others

Critics and Response

Chapter 24.2

Political Attacks

• From the left:• Huey Long• Father Coughlin• Dr. Francis Townsend• Union Party

• From the right:• American Liberty

League• Supreme Court

FDR Response• Second New Deal = • Works Progress

Administration• National Youth

Administration• Revenue Act of 1935• Social Security Act• National Labor Relations

Act• Soil Conservation and

Adjustment Act

Presidential Election - 1936

Collaboration

• Pick a partner (or two…)• Pick a program• Record your

findings (poster!)• Share with the

class

End of the New Deal

Chapter 24.3

Final Legislation

• Second AAA (AAA2):– “ever normal granary”–Crop insurance

• Fair Labor Standards Act –Maximum hours–Minimum wage–Overtime pay–No child labor

Recovery and Recession

• Economy = slow, steady, shaky• 1937 = deficit fears

• Roosevelt actions:• 1. Less spending• 2. Lays off workers• 3. Social Security tax

• Effect:• Recession!• Back to Keynes!• Public fears!

Packing the Court (9 15)• Legislation =

reorganize fed courts• Add 6 to SC• Stated rationale• True rationale• Senate• Backlash• Effect – New Deal

support suffers

15?

Democratic Purge

• Conflict• Primary = anti-

speeches, letters by FDR• 1938 elections • Effect – No

Congressional support• NEW DEAL IS OVER!

New Deal Impact

1. Great Depression

2. Modern Government